Visualizations VSCode extension for Power BI Custom Visuals Visual Studio Code Extension This Visual Studio Code extension adds the option to directly start and restart the PowerBI Visual tools (pbiviz) for developing Power BI Custom Visuals. Features Add 'build-in' support for
Visualizations Power BI visuals delivered via Azure CDN Introduction Power BI has the ability to import custom visuals and use them in your reports and dashboards. This is a great option to extent the visual capabilities of Power BI without waiting
Azure Managing Azure credits with Power BI Recently I ran out of Azure credits before the new billing month was started. The result: Azure automatically disables the account and none of my resources were available. Next question was: how can
Reporting Using Let’s Encrypt certificates for secure SQL Server connections Let's Encrypt Since December last year, the Let’s Encrypt initiative has gone into public beta. Let’s Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority, so you can easily get free
IoT Pushing data thru Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI - part 4 After 6 months there has been a lot of changes in the offering of Azure and Power BI. Those changes implies that my blogposts about connection Stream Analytics and Power BI (1, 2
Analysis Unraveling the Microsoft Analysis Services Deployment Wizard Analysis Services Deployment Wizard Admit: either you love it or you hate it. And I must confess I was part of the last group, but now the wizard have convinced me to love
Power BI Pushing data thru Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI - part 3 Note: see this article for some new insights. After the first two parts (1, 2) now it is time to look at the code to push data to the event hub and process
Power BI Pushing data thru Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI - part 2 Note: see this article for some new insights. In part 1 I provided an overview of the given solution. And now it is time to configure Azure Service Bus, Event Hubs and Stream
Power BI Pushing data thru Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI - part 1 Note: see this article for some new insights. Since the beginning of this year a new version of Power BI has been release in preview and since half March this version is available
DAX Multiple hierarchies and xTDs Last week I was challenged by a co-worker: *‘create a way that a tabular cube case serve a YTD value for different time hierarchies.’ *Because I work at a retailer at this moment,
Power View Adding #Trendlines to #PowerPivot for #PowerView Adding trendlines to PowerPivot It started during a presentation of Cathy Dumas at the latest SQLBits where she compared the different charting capabilities of Excel, Power View, PerformancePoint and Reporting Service. One of
Analysis The beauty of the #SSAS DefaultMember The DefaultMember property for the dimension is know by every Microsoft BI professional. This property sets the default selected member of a dimension attribute, so that member will be selected by default. The
Analysis My PerformancePoint experiences Finally I made some time to write about my experiences with PerformancePoint 2010 and then focused on my dashboard specially for the iPad and the new SP1 features. Last April the was a
Analysis Update on the future of SSAS Last November I wrote about the future of SSAS and BISM (see here for the original post). Now with the release of CTP3 of SQL Server codenamed ‘Denali’ (download here), the new BISM
Analysis Preparing for the #SSASMaestros in HK After a long wait and a lot of arrangements, I am finally about to leave to Hong Kong for the SSASMaestro training. At this moment I got not that much to tell, mainly
Analysis Analysis on tagged customers It is been a while since my last blog and of course I got the standard excuses. The two main are: busy with my project/customer and I intended to blog about the
Analysis My thoughts on the future of SSAS and BISM (UDM 2.0) Today there is a lot of talking about the new BI Sematic Model (BISM) released with the next version of SQL Server, codenamed Denali. Chris Webb has written a good blogpost about the
Analysis What about the future of BI There is a shift going it the IT world: more and more applications are moving to the cloud. Recent examples, e.g. Office365, shows that the gap between the on-premise version and the